Sixth
Annual Oregon Leadership Summit
Moving Forward
On December 3 2007, over 1000 business,
elected, and community leaders came together for the 6th Annual Oregon
Leadership Summit. This page provides information and materials
from the Summit.
If you
participated in the Summit, please take a post-event survey
here. Please send additional comments on the
Sixth Annual Summit and the Oregon Business Plan to info@oregonbusinessplan.org.
A DVD of the Summit is also available
for $20. For a DVD copy, please send a check for $20 to the
Oregon Business Council, 1100 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1608 Portland, OR
97204.
For opportunities to take action on
items discussed at the Leadership Summit and in the Oregon Business
Plan, visit the Oregon
Business Plan Action Center at www.oregonbusinessplan.org/connect_takeaction.
Summit
Materials (if its blue, click to open)
Agenda:
Click
here
2008
Policy Playbook and Initiative Guide: Click
here
Individual
Chapters (click on chapter name to open)
Introduction
Moving
Forward into 2008
Public
Finance
Education
and Workforce
Economic
Innovation
Health
Care
Transportation
Provide
feedback on these initiatives
New
Initiative Proposals
Federal
Forest Restoration.
A
Fresh Look at Land Use.
Ecosystems
Services Marketplace.
Read
the proposal.
Oregon
as a Center for Sustainability Learning.
Provide
feedback on these proposals
Electronic
Voting Results
Electronic
Voting Results
Industry
Clusters Roundtable Sessions
2008
Industry Cluster Resource Guide
Notes
from Industry Cluster Roundtable Discussions (coming soon)
Remarks
Ron
Wyden, United States Senator
Steve
Pratt, Chairman and CEO, ESCO Corp.
Oregon
Business Plan Steering Committee Chair
Will
Swope, Vice President and General
Manager of Corporate Affairs Group, Intel Corporation.
Ron
Saxton, JELD-WEN, inc
Peggy
Fowler, President and CEO, Portland General Electric
Oregon
Business Plan Health Care Initiative Leader
Ted
Kulongoski, Governor of Oregon
Slides
Plenary
Session Slides
Take
Action
Take
the survey to give us feedback on the Oregon Leadership Summit and the
Oregon Business Plan agenda
Visit
the Action Center for ways that you can support the Oregon
Business Plan agenda.
News
Articles and Editorials
Read what others are saying about the Oregon
Leadership Summit and the Oregon Business Plan
Articles
- Transportation tops to-do list. The Oregonian,
December 4, 2007. Legislators and businesses plan ways
to upgrade Oregon's aging roads and bridges. Read
more.
- Turning concepts into cash. The
Oregonian, December 4, 2007. Leaders ask if the state's
sustainability special push adds jobs for the middle class. Read
more...
- Oregon Governor Urges a New Bridge.
Houston Chronicle. December 4, 2007.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski urged Congress and Oregon business leaders on
Monday to support a replacement for the aging Interstate Bridge
across the Columbia River, saying it has become a serious
bottleneck to West Coast traffic and shipping that will hurt the
national economy. Read
more.
- New Green Initiatives.
Leadership Summit attendees
electronically registered straw votes on several proposals to
further state progress on the sustainability front. Read
more.
- Kulongoski, summit leaders call for gas
tax
Portland Business Journal
- December 3, 2007
Authors of the Oregon Business Plan's transportation policies
recommended that the state fund any improvement-driven investments
by increasing gas taxes, ... Read
more.
- Five questions with Steve Pratt The Oregonian,
December 2, 2007. Steve Pratt, president of the Northwest
Portland metals manufacturer Esco Corp., is this year's chairman
of the Oregon Business Plan. As such, he'll be the man introducing
the plan at Monday's Leadership Summit, the annual event in which
the business community unveils its big-picture legislative agenda
and strategic prescriptions to grow the state economy. Read
more.
- Green focus pays, but work remains. Portland
Business Jounral, November 30, 2007. Much
of next week's annual Oregon Leadership Summit will build on last
year's "Gaining Sustainable Advantage" theme...read
more
- Transportation Needs Finally Getting Attention. Lake
Oswego Review. November 22, 2007. The
Leadership summit next month will offer great chance to tackle
transportation issues....read
more
Editorials
- Transportation
rises on the agenda
Oregon Senate President and courtly comic Peter Courtney turned
serious briefly on Monday when speaking to the attendees at the
Oregon Business Plan's annual leadership summit at the Oregon
Convention Center. He praised the work of business leaders who
have pushed state officials to take responsibility for Oregon's
decaying infrastructure. They had succeeded, he told them. Read
more.
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